Poet Profile

Franjo Ordanić

Franjo Ordanić is a man of many interests; in the field of culture, arts and sports. He was the founder of the aikido Club "Hohoemi", himself Master of the 1st Dan. He has taken part in creating a musical "Green Wealth". He has been founding and organizing a number of cultural manifestations in his town. Among others he organizes an annual meeting of the haiku poets in Oroslavje (Haiku at Mogila / Haiku kraj mogile) with a contest in Croatian and the Kajkavian language. One of his many interests is painting. "All inclusive" and "tu doma sem taki" are the names of his haiga exhibitions in co-authorship with Ms. Sandra Šamec, the photographer. He writes haiku for several years. Selected to the European TOP 100 most creative haiku authors in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Awards and Other Honors:

First place - National Haiku Contest 14th "Pumpkin Festival" 2018 and 17th “Pumpkin Festival” 2021; Second place - 9th Croatian Haiku Poets Meeting 2022; Third place – 6th Croatian Haiku Poets Meeting 2019, Haiku Meeting in Gorski kotar (Fužine, Croatia, 2021) and (Skrad, Croatia, 2024); Honorable Mentions - National Haiku Contest 13th "Pumpkin Festival" 2017, 14th "Pumpkin Festival" 2018 and 16th "Pumpkin Festival" 2020, 2nd International Haiku Competition, Pula Film Festival (2021) and 3rd International Haiku Competition, Pula Film Festival (2022), Croatian Haiku Poets Meeting (2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023), Haiku Contest “Juraj Šižgorić” Library (Šibenik, Croatia, 2020 and 2022), World Haiku Review (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), The R.H. Blyth Award (2019), Little Iris Haiku Contest (Ivanić Grad, Croatia, 2022); Highly Commended - 3rd Santoka International Haiga Contest 2020.

Books Published:

Kliktaj bradatih orlova/ The Scream of the Bearded Eagles (Library of the town of Oroslavje, Oroslavje, 2016)[in tandem with Vladimir Šuk]; Lepet krila/ The Flutter of the Wings (Library of the town of Oroslavje, Oroslavje, 2022)[in tandem with Sandra Šamec]; .
Kliktaj bradatih orlova / The Scream of the Bearded Eagles (Library of the town of Oroslavje, Oroslavje, 2016)[in tandem with Vladimir Šuk]; Lepet krila / The Flutter of the Wings (Library of the town of Oroslavje, Oroslavje, 2022)[in tandem with Sandra Šamec]; / Ožiljci vremena / The Signs of Time/ (Library of the town of Oroslavje, Oroslavje, 2023).
Work Anthologised:
Nepokošeno nebo: Antologija hrvatskoga haiku pjesnistva 2 / An Unmown Sky 2: An Anthology of Croatian Haiku Poetry 2008-2018 - ed. D. Vukelić-Rožić (Ivanic-grad, Croatia: Haiku Association “Three Rivers”, 2018); Ludbreg Haiku Meeting / Haiku zbornik Ludbreg (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) and Haiku Contest In Memory of Zdenko Oreč "The Raven" / Haiku natječaj u čast Zdenka Oreča Gavrana (2021, 2022)); Samobor Haiku Meeting / Samoborski haiku susreti Darko Plažanin (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 ); Goranski koraci Haiku Meeting / Zbornici udruge Goranski koraci, Ravna Gora (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021); International Haiku Magazine "IRIS" / časopis IRIS (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022); Haiku Contest In Memory of Borivoj Bukva / Natječaj "U spomen na Borivoja Bukvu, Rijeka (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019); Web portal "Eastern Pearl" - Sound of Water / web portal Istočni biser, Haiku zbornik Zvuk vode (2018); Krapina Kajkavian poetry Meeting / Recital kajkavske poezije, Krapina (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022); Akita International Haiku Network, The World Haiku Series (2019, 2020, 2021); KAJKU, Anthology of Croatian Haiku in Kaykavian Dialect (edited by Đ. Vukelić Rožić, Oroslavje City Library, Oroslavje, Croatia, 2023); Contemporary Croatian Haiku, The New Anthology (edited by Tomislav Maretić & Nikola Đuretić, Croatian Writers' Association, Zagreb, Croatia, 2023).

weak bladder
traffic jam makes my
forehead sweat

this winter too 
the boots hiding my wife’s 
hairy legs

blistering heat―
under the pumpkin leaf
a tiny oasis

under a grape trellis
along with the wine
my life flows

It's moving!
my cat left me a present
at the door

The End―
spilled popcorn crackling
under my feet

Credits:

“weak bladder”—The R. H. Blyth Award 2019, World Haiku Review (Zatsuei - haiku of merit); “this winter too”—Cattails, Oct. 2019; “blistering heat”—First Prize. The Haiku Association ‘Three Rivers’, 17th ‘Pumpkin Festival’ 2021; It's moving!”; “under a grape trellis” — World Haiku Review Summer 2021, Shintai Haiku, Honourable Mentions; “The End”—2nd International Haiku Competition, Pula Film Festival 2021, Honourable Mention.